Each September, Inside Counsel published its “IC 10”, the annual winners of the magazine’s top 10 innovative law departments (Game Changers: The 2009 IC-10 innovative legal departments create winning solutions)….

Incisive Legal Intelligence (formerly ALM Research) recently released a legal outsourcing study. I thought The Law Deparment Legal Outsourcing Study, 2008 would quantify the rapid growth of legal process outsourcing…

In response to my recent blog post asking Is BigLaw Still the Inhouse Counsel Parachute?, which discusses why inhouse lawyers have not done more to evaluate outside counsel, Jeffrey Carr,…

I recently reported that many inhouse counsel lack the tools to manage outside counsel properly (The Sorry State of Law Department Legal Tech). The situation is even worse than I…

In Latest Round of Cuts, Dechert Lays Off Staff Attorneys (The Legal Intelligencer, 26 Feb 09) raises the question of how clients should staff matters.  The article discusses the economics…

ILTA released this month its 2008 Law Department Survey. I find the results shocking.  Click here fr the ILTA 2008 Law Department Survey. 45 law departments responded. More than 95%…

Another publication, another article about law departments getting tough on costs. It sure seems that general counsels are like people on a diet.  From personal observation and articles about dieting,…